Chandigarh/ Harike: Punjab Deputy Chief Minister Sukhbir Badal today took to Facebook to address Netizens who mocked his “Harike Water Cruise”. Sukhbir Badal said that earlier his statement about water buses was mocked as mere gossip but now when the project has realised as “Harike Water Cruise”, the critics have changed the topic of their criticism by calling the water bus as “Gharukkas” (a desi vehicle).

Sukhbir Badal said that he was always open to criticism maintaining that criticism gives him strength to march forward.

A Facebook post by Sukhbir Badal (in Punjabi reads as follows):

A screenshot from Sukhbir Badal’s Facebook wall (screenshot taken on December 12, 2016)